Who is entitled to free public education in B.C.?

The Richmond News has a story about a mother who is challenging the school district’s decision to charge her $12,400 for her daughter to attend school. The woman, who is not a Canadian citizen and doesn’t have a B.C. work permit, says she didn’t have to pay last year and shouldn’t have to pay this year either.

The district admits it made a mistake last year when it did not charge her the international-student fee, but Mike Kliman, an thevancouversunistrator for the district’s international student program, said that mistake won’t be repeated. “We are working towards closing loopholes,” he’s quoted as saying.

The district has 400 international students who pay the $12,400 tuition and 300 who do not because their parents work or study in the province, the story says.

Amy Si, who was born in China and came to Canada in 2008 with her daughter, does neither, but she says she is planning on marrying a Canadian citizen and seeking a work permit. “Why should I pay for a whole year if I can get my work permit in six months?” she asks. “I’m happy to pay but (they) need to allow me to pay partial.”

The story says there is a “grey area” that allows people from other countries to enrol in local colleges and receive work permits as part of a co-op work program and then send their children to public schools free of charge. There are more complications due to conflicts between federal immigration laws and provincial rules. Read the story by reporter Nelson Bennetthere.

Immigration laws in this country are an absolute joke. Immigration policy is the 800 pound gorilla in the room that no politicans want to touch. We have an 8% unemployment rate, yet we are bringing into the country 8% of our population every year, of whom three fifths are not economic migrants, people who have money to invest nor skills that we need. Whats worse, we are allowing one person to qualify for immigration then they bring over their whole family, then their whole family, then their whole family and 90% of these immigrants totally bypass our points system under the guise of “family reunification”. We then see cultural ghettoes like Surrey (east indian) or Richmond (chinese) where most of the immigrants dont even need to learn one of our official languages because the municipality even puts up street signs in a non-Canadian language. We need to STOP all immigration until we can actually come up with an immigration policy that makes sense. Immigrants have a place in Canadian society, most of us are descended from immigrants in one way or another. However accepting nearly 10% of our population every year with most of them coming over for no reason other than someone in their family managed to qualify is insane. Allowing 90% of immigrants to move to cultural ghettoes in Vancouver, Toronto, and Montreal is even more insane. These non-economic migrants are doing one thing and one thing only – they are taking jobs from high school students. Jobs like fast food restaurants and light general labor used to be ways that CANADIAN high school kids and university students used to pay for their university educations and their first automobiles. Now we see entire fast food restaurants filled with not only adult immigrants, but people all from the same country of origin! Would I get away with running a business and saying only white people could work there? How about these restaurants that only hire east indians or asians or filipinos? Why is nobody doing a damn thing about these places? Politicans need to grow a pair of jewels. If we allow everyone who lives in a poor country to move to Canada, we’re going to end up in the same boat as India, China, or some ugly mashup mix of all of those countries. Canada is a great country – because Canadians made it that way. Immigrants are a part of that picture. When we have any unemployment at all, we should not be allowing non-economic migrants into this country at all. If we have labor shortages, we should only be allowing those who have those skillsets allowed into the country – and only to where those jobs are. Vancouver is totally unaffordable to live in. A single family detached home costs over 70% of a dual income families income. Do we need more residents in Vancouver right now? No. Housing prices are insane and unaffordable. Politicans need to get real.

Vancouver Real Estate =Drugmoney Canada is sending troops to foreign countries when the real threat to are security is right here at home, where certain political parties have turned immigration fraud into a huge cash cow for their campaign coffers. Having turned Canada into an open port for criminals and terrorist from around the world these very same politicians work with organized crime to sell off your future, your children’s future, and your parents retirement and health care to third world trash that break the law and get rewarded with free health care, free education, free housing, and priority placement into government jobs.

So essentially this woman got a work permit for another province, but instead of working there she moved to BC where she is unemployed and pregnant, and now she expects to get free education for her daughter which she is not authorized to have? And she should only pay partial tuition because maybe she might or might not get married to a Canadian citizen? How is she allowed to remain in Canada with no work or study permit anyway? Jesus.